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Bear dung helps Japanese cherry trees survive climate change

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Bear dung helps Japanese cherry trees survive climate change

Cherry trees hit by rising temperatures can't escape, but their seeds are hitching a ride uphill to cooler habitats thanks to bears doing what they do in the woods

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Abandoned polytunnel in Spain

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Half a degree extra warming would lead to catastrophic impacts

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A US weather forecaster standing in front of a weather map

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Climate change has been kind to Americans - but it won't last

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Dried out river in Greece

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A looming water crisis demands creative thinking

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A group of men and women mountain climbing on the Mer de Glace, France, circa 1870

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Victorians experienced early climate change but missed the signs

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Paris climate

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Do flatlining emissions make Paris climate deal more realistic?

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Jam of cars going both ways on a five-lane highway in LA, with the sun in the background making everything glow and giving an aura of hot, hot, hotness

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Unprecedented global warming as 2016 approaches 1.5 °C mark

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Some bleached coral at Lizard island

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Face-to-face with Great Barrier Reef's worst coral bleaching

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A mound of whitish green coral that doesn't look like the vibrant colourful stuff one associates with healthy reefs. Blue sea, shoal of small fish in background

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Coral reefs set to lose tolerance to bleaching as oceans warm

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Forest in Basel, Switzerland

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Trees share vital goodies through a secret underground network

For the first time we've seen mature wild trees sharing carbon via their roots, and it turns out they share a lot more than we previously thought

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Feedback: The scientific predictions hiding in classic fiction

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UN climate chief: Here's why Paris climate deal will work

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What's behind bankruptcy of world's largest private coal firm

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Record early ice melt in Greenland due to freak warm weather

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